British Academy Appointments

About our Fellows

The British Academy is a fellowship of around 1,400 leading national and international academics elected for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, the British Academy elects to its Fellowship up to 52 outstanding UK-based scholars who have achieved academic distinction as reflected in scholarly research activity and publication.

On election, all Fellows are assigned to one of 18 broad disciplinary Sections spanning the humanities and social sciences. Fellows may also become members of an additional Section, according to the range of their scholarly expertise.

Publications

The Music of Szymanowski 1980

Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt 2003

Music in the Balkans 2013

The Music of Chopin 1985

Music in transition 1977

Chopin (Master Musicians) 1996

The Cambridge history of 19th century music 2002

Other History of Art and Music Fellows

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

Modern and contemporary art; abstraction; special interests in the legacies of the constructive avant-gardes and in contemporary art; the relationship between art and theory; new critical perspectives on art